OT: Scariest novel you remember

The Wolfen was a great book :)
Scariest things for me were always movies- as a kid it was "Alien" and "Poltergeist" that kept me up nights.
As for books, Stephen King always manages to give me the willies. "It" was a good one.
 
'Salems Lot. Vampires scared me more than anything else through school.

Reading the book of Revelation was a close second though. I thought all those judgements were headed my way, and deservedly so.

Now, I'm just afraid of being a bad dad. That is my greatest fear now.

Tom
 
DannyinJapan said:
Scariest book? DiMaio's Forensic Pathology or DiMaio's Gunshot wounds.
Fun books. When I quit that business, I sold the books, i didnt want my nieces or nephews to even open those books.

Never open those books , boys.
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Bobby B. said:
...as we all scan E-Bay for copies to look at...
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Too expensive there, you can get them cheaper at amazon.com
 
The last book that gave me nightmares was "The Reader's Digest Guide to Home Improvement". Couldn't sleep for a week. Finally got help - in the Yellow Pages under "Contractors".
 
Has anyone read Clive Barker? Good stuff, creepy mostly modern horror. Definetly freaky if read in the right conditions.
 
DannyinJapan wrote: "I read 'the man eaters of tsavo' in college and when I saw the first .000004 picoseconds of the first trailer for it, I stood up in the theater ad yelled 'the man eaters of tsavo!!!!'

"Did you read a novel adapted from the movie or did they reprint the original and change the name ?"

The movie was loosely adapted from the book. I read it after seeing the movie and it didn't seem scary to me. It was the movie that did that. The visual images of those big yellow lions appearing out of the yellow grass. I've always been uneasy about tigers. (Remember the scene from "Apocolypse Now"?) Now I'm very uneasy about lions as well.

Larry S. mentioned "The Hot Zone". I forgot about that one. It was as scary as anything I've ever read. The thing that got me was that they still don't know what carries the Ebola virus in the wild during those times that it is dormant as far as man is concerned. The cave mentioned in the book did scare me a bit. It's the unknown that is most scary.

Regards,
Bill
 
Yup...Hot Zone...scarey and a great read!

I remember thinking *YUCK* (or was it *Coool*) as I read it... :D
 
Recently, Paul Theroux's Dark Star Safari... About contemporary Africa. One chilling line when bandits were shooting at them in their truck, and a soldier told him, "They don't want your life, they want your shoes..."
In my childhood definitely Bram Stoker's Dracula was number one.
 
edgetrip said:
Has anyone read Clive Barker? Good stuff, creepy mostly modern horror. Definetly freaky if read in the right conditions.
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Yup, yup, and yup!:D
I have a couple of Barkers book's. He beats King IMO when it comes to pure horror without using the gross out effect.;)
Although I was grossed out plenty when I read; what was it, Dreamweaver? I can't recall the name of the book now but it is one of the few books I've only read once!:eek:
 
One precursor to migraines is small "shooting stars" appearing when the eyes are closed. I do not have migraines but can see those effects with my eyes open.

I also saw the movie The Ghost and the Darkness based on the book The Man Eaters of Tsavo. I read the book first. I stopped being afraid of the dark within a few days. The Wolfen though took me weeks to get over.
 
I was grossed out plenty when I read; what was it, Dreamweaver?
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Was it Stephen King's Dreamcatcher?

I read it, and tried to like it. But, for the most part it was just goofy.

n2s
 
not2sharp said:
Was it Stephen King's Dreamcatcher?

I read it, and tried to like it. But, for the most part it was just goofy.

n2s
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No, it was one of Clive Barkers book's.
 
Hmmn: was it Boris Karloff, Vincent Price, or Bela Lugosi who did the old black and white Dracula? It was actually filmed in Hungary which at the time it was made owned the part of Transylvania later ceded to Romania after WW2 that had been Walachia ( ruled by Vlad Tepes aka Vlad the Impaler ) and ruled by the Draculs ( Dragons ). Anyway the bit actors they hired to make the movie spoke Hungarian and I remember watching the movie on television ask demanding my mom tell me what the extras and bit players were saying.

By the way, my mother's two oldest sisters were already married when the family came over. To two brothers named Shondor and Miclos - born and raised in the Transylvanian part of Hungary. My mom and her next older sister were born over here but were reared with Hungarian as native tongue inside the family. My cousins and I were incensed as kids when they'd talk Hungarian, look at us kids, and laugh until they sometimes wet their pants.
 
If you want to read a true, first hand account on how quickly modern society and 'civilized' people can decend into horror and atrocity, read, "My War Gone By, I Miss It So", by Anthony Lloyd.

It shows how nasty and ruthless a modern civil war can be.

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I grew up the same Rusty...can still speak a bit though. Both Karloff and Lugosi did B&W versions, but it was Lugosi you are thinking of. In fact, at that time, Lugosi himself spoke no English and simply memorized the sounds of the English words.
 
My Life Among The Serial Killers, by Helen Morrison, is next on the list for my weekend reading. According to the cover notes she's interviewed over 80 serial killers.

But other non-fiction accounts of serial killings haven't affected me as badly as some fiction. Zebra is the exception - because of the racial hatred preached at that time ( 74/75 ). 19 dead and 6 survivors from a 32 auto with fmj bullets. Actually two pistols of the same make.

I was 25 at the time attending Fresno State Univ. and I was clueless about racial hatred. I grew up at Tahoe, which had no blacks at the time.
 
Bill Clinton's autobiography. I have not, nor will I read the foul thing. Nonetheless, I'm scared that it exists.
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